Comment Re:Oh, NO! (Score 1) 204
"When we read an article in an encyclopedia, a lot of other stuff other than intelligence comes into play: x years of public school education, idiomatic constructs, varying by geographic location, that may or may not enhance or obscure meaning, and, of course, the double meanings and entendres inserted by bored or biased encyclopedia writers."
On the contrary, I think these examples you provided ARE intelligence. It's quite obvious that we can instill the kind of intelligence you speak of into software (raw logic/reasoning)but I would call this merely logic/reasoning. The challenge comes ONLY on the front of the semantics of culture and society. But don't give us humans too much credit. Even moral reasoning can be reduced to a few simple algorithms. I'd argue that there's nothing THAT special about our brains. When you get to the lowest levels of thought it's just basic reasoning skills and a large, interlinked repository of information. In fact the only advantage we have over a machine is that we're wired into the most versatile data collection instrument we know of- our body.
The question is whether that's something that can be replaced by a team of deep-thinking programmers.
On the contrary, I think these examples you provided ARE intelligence. It's quite obvious that we can instill the kind of intelligence you speak of into software (raw logic/reasoning)but I would call this merely logic/reasoning. The challenge comes ONLY on the front of the semantics of culture and society. But don't give us humans too much credit. Even moral reasoning can be reduced to a few simple algorithms. I'd argue that there's nothing THAT special about our brains. When you get to the lowest levels of thought it's just basic reasoning skills and a large, interlinked repository of information. In fact the only advantage we have over a machine is that we're wired into the most versatile data collection instrument we know of- our body.
The question is whether that's something that can be replaced by a team of deep-thinking programmers.
